It was a Churchillian reminder from an Egyptian Muslim that 0-3 down to allegedly the best team on the continent was no time for defeatism and Liverpool responded as millions of English fans hoped but did not seriously believe they would.

Salah must have loaned that T-shirt to Spurs who were reminded by manager Mauricio Pochettino that Liverpool had done the impossible and so could they against Ajax in Amsterdam.

So in an all-Premier League final Liverpool or Spurs have the chance of grasping the European Cup as consolation for the probability that the two-club Grand National finish to the title will end in City winning by a nostril.

Spurs were the one team with education and talent to measure up to our two Titans.

Argentine Poch has taught them to ignore any tendencies to an inferiority complex to run parallel to Liverpool in English football’s finest 24 hours.

BEST IN THE WORLD

Owning a new stadium and defying the unwritten rule that clubs must refresh in transfer windows, Spurs stand ready on June 1 in Madrid to make club history.

Confirmation that we have the best league in the world comes with two London sides in the Europa Cup final making it a unique English monopoly of the continent’s two competitions.

We learned many other things this season, too. Here are a few that strike me:

VAR is here to stay and we are already discovering the system makes mistakes, too. In time it will also undermine reffing authority and test crowd patience.

Arsenal must have regrets about allowing contracts to run down.

They’ve lost Aaron Ramsey to Juventus and, a year before, Alexis Sanchez to Man U for the combined sum of not a bauble.

United, meanwhile, having spent £500m on evidence from a 12-strong scouting team replete with a chief scout and, straight out of a world domination movie, a head of global scouting, finished a humbling sixth.

Plenty of lessons there, then.

There’s been further proof great players don’t often make great managers.

Joining the list that includes several of his United mates is Paul Scholes, ex-Oldham, and also the not-so-great Joey Barton, ex-Strangeways, who will be joining the jobless if he doesn’t behave at Fleetwood.

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